NHL salaries since Bettman took over as commish ( 1993 ) have gone from 580,000 a year to 2.4 million.. and NHL total revenue has gone up to 3 Billion from 400 million.. So , maybe Gary should drop his drawers at center ice and the players could line up to kiss his butt? or just maybe he has fulfilled his commitment to "grow the game" and the owners can line up? Even if as Dogsalmon says .......................... ( waiting for it )

Personal note.. When I started watching the Nucks play (1970) average NHL salaries were 18,000.. about the same as I made a year..

I've already told all of my family I don't want anything NHL related for Christmas or even the foreseeable future. I know I can't be the only one. Season ticket holders may be replaced by the next guy in line but I can do my part and not support this nonsense. I will probably watch games when they lace em up again but I certainly won't be contributing to HRR in any way for a long time.

I really hope when they pull the pin on the season that they do not have a weighted lottery for the 2013 draft. 30 teams, 30 balls, not 3 balls for teams like the Leafs, Flames and Coilers because they sucked shit for the last three years, and 1 ball for the teams who actually made the playoffs.

Nobody in their right mind can predict what would have happened had there been a season this year. The Canucks could have gotten ravaged with injuries and sold off all their UFAs at the deadline and finished in last. To have a weighted lottery based on what happened from 2009-12 with ZERO regard to the cancelled season except a guess is disingenous and bush league but then again it is the NHL so anything is possible.

Blob Mckenzie wrote:I really hope when they pull the pin on the season that they do not have a weighted lottery for the 2013 draft. 30 teams, 30 balls, not 3 balls for teams like the Leafs, Flames and Coilers because they sucked shit for the last three years, and 1 ball for the teams who actually made the playoffs.